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POST‐SOCIALIST FARMERS’ COOPERATIVES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
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The emergence, transformation and sustainability of farmers’ cooperatives in post‐socialist societies of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) require complex and diverse processes of institutional change. In this paper we discuss the conditions under which cooperatives develop and sustain and also the role of local and central actors using a case study approach. Since cooperatives in the socialist system provided numerous social services and contributed to rural development, another research question concerns the survival of this tradition. Through twin case studies in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and East Germany we present the conditions and strategies for achieving sustainability of co‐operatives. The results reveal important requirements for cooperatives to be sustainable: overcoming the communist legacy of mistrust against cooperative organizations, convincing members by building trust, coping with fundamental collective action problems, constructive communication that takes the problems and ideas of members seriously, finding cooperative leaders able to cope with members’ opportunism and a facilitating state encouraging the development of cooperatives.
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“Regulatory regimes often impose high compliance costs, which disproportionately burden micro-producers and encourage semi-formal or informal marketing practices [16,19,39,44,45,47].”
From Who Reaches the Consumer? A Network Analysis of Market Reach Factors of Slovakia's Short Food Supply Chains (2026) · cites this paper as [45]
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“Producer strategies in post-socialist countries are shaped by disrupted institutional continuity following transition and rapid market liberalization [16,45,46].”
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“Cooperatives involved in SFSCs in Slovakia may point to actors that have adapted [45].”
From Who Reaches the Consumer? A Network Analysis of Market Reach Factors of Slovakia's Short Food Supply Chains (2026) · cites this paper as [45]
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“They retain a relatively dominant position and typically manage large areas of land, focusing on commodity production and supplying processors or wholesalers [14,15,45].”
From Who Reaches the Consumer? A Network Analysis of Market Reach Factors of Slovakia's Short Food Supply Chains (2026) · cites this paper as [45]
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“While often associated with commodity production and scale-oriented strategies [14,15,45], the findings show that cooperatives engaged in SFSCs may function as effective coordination mechanisms.”
From Who Reaches the Consumer? A Network Analysis of Market Reach Factors of Slovakia's Short Food Supply Chains (2026) · cites this paper as [45]
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“However, the results do not capture cooperatives that are not engaged in SFSC channels, many of which have failed to establish viable market positions due to low trust, weak managerial capacities, and unfavorable institutional and market conditions, as documented in the literature [15,45,46].”
From Who Reaches the Consumer? A Network Analysis of Market Reach Factors of Slovakia's Short Food Supply Chains (2026) · cites this paper as [45]
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Varecha, L., Jarábková, J., & Hrivnák, M. (2026) · Agriculture · doi:10.3390/agriculture16060649
“They retain a relatively dominant position and typically manage large areas of land, focusing on commodity production and supplying processors or wholesalers [14,15,45].”
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- Authors
- HAGEDORN, K.
- Affiliations
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- Corresponding author
- HAGEDORN, Konrad
- Venue
- Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-11-26
- Volume
- 85
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 555-577
- ISSN
- 1370-4788 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8292
- OpenAlex
- W2147151459
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 13.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- EUROPEAN COMMISSION, DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT (30-CE-0395921/00-42)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Cooperative Studies and Economics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Agricultural economics and policies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Finance › Banking Systems and Strategies
- Keywords
- agricultural cooperatives, post-communist transition, cooperative sustainability, institutional change, rural development, collective action problems, collaborative leadership, communist legacy, Central and Eastern Europe, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, East Germany
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